The most entertaining thing about old sci-fi is the bad science. Well, it wasn't bad at the time but it's comically inaccurate now. Heinlein was good about writing in reasonably black-box style in later books so perhaps this one won't be too bad, but if you've ever read, say, 'under pressure' by Herbert then you know what I mean.
All the pictures I've ever seen of semiconductor fabs has shown all the workers in environment suits to keep the machinery as totally clean as possible. So how exactly are the chemicals supposed to have gotten in to these "victims"?
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Wow, I'm glad that they are so fair minded and humanitarian as to only be here for me. In that case, please STOP BEING PART OF THE PROBLEM.
It's only the second day of the month and my spam filter reports I've already received 75 spams wasting half a megabyte of my ISP's bandwidth. For anyone interested, my ISP has a great spam filtering service; I hardly ever actually get any spams falling through to my in box. You can check it out at this URL: https://www.mailarmory.com/
Now if only the manufacturers could get together to decide upon standard sizes for fuel cells instead of the current completely incompatible array of laptop battery formats in use. Even of there is large, medium, and small formats for fuel cells, it will be a HUGE help to the consumer as third party competition will keep the prices down... which is of course why industries resist standards in such things.
uses a neural network to pick out the unique features of the way that someone uses a mouse
Great... as if I didn't have enough to worry about. Now I have to start more erratically using the mouse so I can't be tracked... except that being completely erratic can be a recognizable trait... ARGH!!!
I've inquired about more IT budgeting (staff, equipment, etc.), and that just is not going to happen for quite a while.
This budget problem is not because there isn't enough money but because the budgeting system you use isn't sophisticated enough. The way you do it now: IT department is assigned $x per month or year and that's it. No, this is wrong. Take an internal customer approach instead. Your "customers" are really all the other departments. When someone in the marketing department wants a new computer or program or a service call then the IT department should bill the marketing department's budget. See? This way, IT always has enough money because in order to get any IT work the requesting department has to pay for it. Doing this adds some overhead to the budgeting process but it more than makes up for the trouble. The way you're currently doing things, the IT department is purely a cost center which is always the first thing under the axe for budget cuts. Turn it in to a revenue center that pays its own way with the system I've described and you can easily justify hiring an assistant.
It's the chuncking through those data statements at the end that helps really beats up performance. Defining all those as strings at the beginning will ameliorate that problem.
for small businesses, and leaving out something like multiple currency support, imo, is quite warranted
In case you haven't noticed, there's this new thing called "the Internet" when combined with these other new things called "Federal Express" and "United Parcel Service" that allow even one person businesses in garages and basements to sell direct to customers worldwide.
Red Hat had positive cash flow for the past two quarters, see here: http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/r/rhat_qc.html
Note that net income is an accounting construct so even though income is negative, cash flow is positive. Ignore the income statement unless you're a finance person as it is misleading to the casual glance.
another problem was the Sealand family's tinkering with the network connection
Well, duh. Have you seen a picture of the place? It's two concrete pilings with a construction shack on top. WTF else is there to do after someone puts in some server racks with a fibre optic network uplink?
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I understand that manual transmission cars are purchased with greatly reduced frequency compared to automatics
While this might be true in general, it varies by each model's target demographic. You neglect to mention the make and model car you tried to get. As as example, the target demographic for Cadillac Seville probably has so few customers wanting manual transmissions that it isn't worthwhile for GM to design one, much less actually make it. A manual transmission isn't currently a drop in place part that the factory can substitute unless its already designed and at least a few are made. And they aren't going to bother with the expense of doing that unless they think enough people are going to want it.
Now this BTO outfit DOES want to make a manual transmission a drop in part, but notice that their profit margin for providing this service is targeted at 15-20% as opposed to the typical GM profit of 0-3%. You'll be able to get what you want, but usual, you'll have to pay for it.
Can this rant try harder to alienate/befuddle most of the computer using population?
Nope.
There are two clearly divided camps in the Linux community: one tries to maintain it as an exclusive geek club and the other tries to promote it to general use. It's pretty clear which camp this claim of not being a product is from.
"Hi, I, like, lost my key or something. Can I, like, get to my disk anyway?" "Umm, no, it's completely inaccessible without the key; that's the point." "Well that's stupid! I'll never buy anything from you incompetents again!"
I use NiMH batteries and they are absolutely fantastic. Specifically, I use PowerEx brand, 1800mAh model. A set of four AA in my digital camera will run the thing for a full day's outing (picture taking on and off, 30-40 frames with 5-10 movies) and that's WITH the little LCD screen on. I can't recommend this brand enough. I also buy them through a mailorder outfit called Thomas Distributing. Several friends and I have made several purchases from them and never have a problem.
Why does it take vastly less time for a wafer rejected for chip manufacture to recoup the energy spent on its production, compared to the 'typical' solar panel?
Well, it doesn't really unless you consider that the reject chip was going to be made anyway and is trash otherwise. Starting from the point of view that the reject chip wafer is a sunken cost, and thus not counted, you need the aluminum frame and wiring, etc, and that's what takes 3 months to recoup.
What I don't get is how you save 17% when solar panels are included with the new house. There's no 'before solar' for this house to compare bills! Comparing with some completely different house introduces an adsurd number of variables other than the solar panels and thus isn't a valid comparison at all.
You're kidding, right? Add up how many people will pay to be unlisted if listed otherwise and how many people will pay for being listed if unlisted otherwise. Yeah, the phone company's bean counters aren't stupid.
"If I own part of a corporation, and that corporation owns a recording, do I not have rights to that recording?"
Nope. For example, I happen to own 100 shares of Red Hat but if I go to corporate headquarters and help myself to a workstation they'll call the cops. The same for intellectual property. Stock ownership is not direct ownership of a portion of the company's assets. It is ownership of a claim against assets and future revenues. Remember that corporations are legal entities themselves. As such, the corporation owns its own property, physical and intellectual, and this does not pass through except in a dollar value sense to the stockholders. So in the example of a music cd, if the company buys the CD for $19.95 and you own 1% of the outstanding stock then you can put $.19 under 'assets: cd music' on your ownership balance sheet. But you still can't go take the CD and make your own copy.
What is the nature of the transactions in question? If these are customer orders then saying you can't afford it is economic suicide. Go to the bank and request a loan for more/bigger computing power to handle all the business. On the other hand, if this is not customer orders, or not directly related, then you need to ask just how necessary it is and whether the process can be streamlined so less computing power is required. But really, customer order support needs to get whatever budget can be begged, borrowed, or stolen.
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The most entertaining thing about old sci-fi is the bad science. Well, it wasn't bad at the time but it's comically inaccurate now. Heinlein was good about writing in reasonably black-box style in later books so perhaps this one won't be too bad, but if you've ever read, say, 'under pressure' by Herbert then you know what I mean.
I can't think of a worthwhile motherboard maker out there that doesn't use the Phoenix Award BIOS
You won't find DRM in the BIOS for NSC's Geode based boards. LOL
All the pictures I've ever seen of semiconductor fabs has shown all the workers in environment suits to keep the machinery as totally clean as possible. So how exactly are the chemicals supposed to have gotten in to these "victims"?
Again, receiving no commission or kick back for listing them. We are here for you and you only. We are not here to tout a company to receive a kick back. Just giving as accurate information as humanly possible so to help your business make it big.
Wow, I'm glad that they are so fair minded and humanitarian as to only be here for me. In that case, please STOP BEING PART OF THE PROBLEM.
It's only the second day of the month and my spam filter reports I've already received 75 spams wasting half a megabyte of my ISP's bandwidth. For anyone interested, my ISP has a great spam filtering service; I hardly ever actually get any spams falling through to my in box. You can check it out at this URL: https://www.mailarmory.com/
Now if only the manufacturers could get together to decide upon standard sizes for fuel cells instead of the current completely incompatible array of laptop battery formats in use. Even of there is large, medium, and small formats for fuel cells, it will be a HUGE help to the consumer as third party competition will keep the prices down... which is of course why industries resist standards in such things.
uses a neural network to pick out the unique features of the way that someone uses a mouse
Great... as if I didn't have enough to worry about. Now I have to start more erratically using the mouse so I can't be tracked... except that being completely erratic can be a recognizable trait... ARGH!!!
This budget problem is not because there isn't enough money but because the budgeting system you use isn't sophisticated enough. The way you do it now: IT department is assigned $x per month or year and that's it. No, this is wrong. Take an internal customer approach instead. Your "customers" are really all the other departments. When someone in the marketing department wants a new computer or program or a service call then the IT department should bill the marketing department's budget. See? This way, IT always has enough money because in order to get any IT work the requesting department has to pay for it. Doing this adds some overhead to the budgeting process but it more than makes up for the trouble. The way you're currently doing things, the IT department is purely a cost center which is always the first thing under the axe for budget cuts. Turn it in to a revenue center that pays its own way with the system I've described and you can easily justify hiring an assistant.
It's the chuncking through those data statements at the end that helps really beats up performance. Defining all those as strings at the beginning will ameliorate that problem.
In case you haven't noticed, there's this new thing called "the Internet" when combined with these other new things called "Federal Express" and "United Parcel Service" that allow even one person businesses in garages and basements to sell direct to customers worldwide.
Note that net income is an accounting construct so even though income is negative, cash flow is positive. Ignore the income statement unless you're a finance person as it is misleading to the casual glance.
Does that mean he thinks the state of Alabama has the constitutional right to deny women pleasure inducing devices?
Well, duh. Have you seen a picture of the place? It's two concrete pilings with a construction shack on top. WTF else is there to do after someone puts in some server racks with a fibre optic network uplink?
While this might be true in general, it varies by each model's target demographic. You neglect to mention the make and model car you tried to get. As as example, the target demographic for Cadillac Seville probably has so few customers wanting manual transmissions that it isn't worthwhile for GM to design one, much less actually make it. A manual transmission isn't currently a drop in place part that the factory can substitute unless its already designed and at least a few are made. And they aren't going to bother with the expense of doing that unless they think enough people are going to want it.
Now this BTO outfit DOES want to make a manual transmission a drop in part, but notice that their profit margin for providing this service is targeted at 15-20% as opposed to the typical GM profit of 0-3%. You'll be able to get what you want, but usual, you'll have to pay for it.
since BTO is building a unionized plant in San Bernardino
Well, so much for the requirement of being ultra efficient and timely.
Nope.
There are two clearly divided camps in the Linux community: one tries to maintain it as an exclusive geek club and the other tries to promote it to general use. It's pretty clear which camp this claim of not being a product is from.
.45 long slide with laser sight vs Dongle requires no practice and is quite effective.
"Hi, I, like, lost my key or something. Can I, like, get to my disk anyway?"
"Umm, no, it's completely inaccessible without the key; that's the point."
"Well that's stupid! I'll never buy anything from you incompetents again!"
I use NiMH batteries and they are absolutely fantastic. Specifically, I use PowerEx brand, 1800mAh model. A set of four AA in my digital camera will run the thing for a full day's outing (picture taking on and off, 30-40 frames with 5-10 movies) and that's WITH the little LCD screen on. I can't recommend this brand enough. I also buy them through a mailorder outfit called Thomas Distributing. Several friends and I have made several purchases from them and never have a problem.
I already did; it's called 'gold'.
Well, it doesn't really unless you consider that the reject chip was going to be made anyway and is trash otherwise. Starting from the point of view that the reject chip wafer is a sunken cost, and thus not counted, you need the aluminum frame and wiring, etc, and that's what takes 3 months to recoup.
What I don't get is how you save 17% when solar panels are included with the new house. There's no 'before solar' for this house to compare bills! Comparing with some completely different house introduces an adsurd number of variables other than the solar panels and thus isn't a valid comparison at all.
You're kidding, right? Add up how many people will pay to be unlisted if listed otherwise and how many people will pay for being listed if unlisted otherwise. Yeah, the phone company's bean counters aren't stupid.
Possibilities abound in addition to just plain winning the shootout via miracle... have you seen Alien 4, for example?
Nope. For example, I happen to own 100 shares of Red Hat but if I go to corporate headquarters and help myself to a workstation they'll call the cops. The same for intellectual property. Stock ownership is not direct ownership of a portion of the company's assets. It is ownership of a claim against assets and future revenues. Remember that corporations are legal entities themselves. As such, the corporation owns its own property, physical and intellectual, and this does not pass through except in a dollar value sense to the stockholders. So in the example of a music cd, if the company buys the CD for $19.95 and you own 1% of the outstanding stock then you can put $.19 under 'assets: cd music' on your ownership balance sheet. But you still can't go take the CD and make your own copy.
What is the nature of the transactions in question? If these are customer orders then saying you can't afford it is economic suicide. Go to the bank and request a loan for more/bigger computing power to handle all the business. On the other hand, if this is not customer orders, or not directly related, then you need to ask just how necessary it is and whether the process can be streamlined so less computing power is required. But really, customer order support needs to get whatever budget can be begged, borrowed, or stolen.